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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Engraved interior with a woman and gentleman before a clerk at a desk, a kneeling servant, two dogs, and children.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 5

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraved asylum interior with a chained man tended by figures, a violinist, and visitors; verses below.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 8

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraved prison interior with barred windows, a jailer with keys, and figures gathered around a table and bed.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 7

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraving of a crowded tavern with men gambling at tables, a dog, a fallen wig, and smoke filling the room.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 6

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraved 18th-century London street scene at morning with a coffee house, market women by a fire, and crowds of people.

Morning: The Four Times of the Day

William Hogarth, March 25, 1738

Engraving of a busy morning street scene with market women by a fire, a couple near Tom King's Coffee House, and a clock.

Morning (The Four Times of Day)

William Hogarth, March 25, 1738

Engraved night street scene with a lantern-carrying couple, bonfire, overturned cart, and tavern signs under a crescent moon.

Night: The Four Times of Day

William Hogarth, March 25, 1738

Engraving of a village street at evening with a woman with a fan, a man holding a child, a boy with a cane, and a dog.

Evening: The Four Times of Day

Bernard Baron, March 25, 1738

Engraving of a cluttered garret with a poet at his desk, two women working by the fireplace, a cat and dog on the floor.

The Distrest Poet

William Hogarth, March 3, 1737

Engraving of an evening town street with a couple on a footbridge, a child, a cow, a dog, and an inn sign.

Evening (The Four Times of Day)

William Hogarth, March 25, 1738

Engraved frontispiece with an oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff, surrounded by fruit swags and garden roundels.

Frontispiece with a Portrait of Jacques Boyceau de la Berauderie (ca. 1560-1633)

Grégoire Huret, ca. 1638

Engraving of the reclining Marforio statue beside Latin inscribed pedestals, with a seated draughtsman and Roman ruins behind

Marforius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1550

Engraving of two peasant couples walking on grass, one pair labeled Fabianus Ienner and the other Mathias Hornung, dated 1546

January and February from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1546

Engraving of the reclining Marforio river-god statue beside a brick wall, with Latin inscriptions on pedestals below and ruin

Marforius

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1550

Engraving of two peasant couples walking on grass, the men carrying swords, with inscribed names above.

May and June from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1546-47

Engraving of a reclining bearded river god with putti, a crocodile and cornucopia, framed by a Latin inscription and ornament

The Nile, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, mid-16th century

Engraving of a seated helmeted Roma figure between two bearded captives on a carved pedestal, with Latin inscription below.

Roma Victrix, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1549

Engraved view of the Sala Regia with an enthroned audience, rows of courtiers and guards, and a caption tablet on the right w

Vatican Reception of the Duke of Tuscany, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne Dupérac, ca. 1570

Engraving of gods and figures among clouds, with a central seated figure raising his arms, after Sistine frescoes.

Sistine Frescoes, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

René Boyvin, 16th century

Engraving of a tournament in a courtyard with mounted knights, packed galleries of spectators, and a domed building behind.

Vatican Tournament, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Master HCB, 1565

Engraving of a papal gathering in the Sistine Chapel with a crowd of clergy beneath the Last Judgement fresco.

A Papal Gathering in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the back wall; the crowd looks on through a…

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Small engraving of two peasants dancing on the left and a couple walking on the right, one man carrying a dagger.

Copy of July and August from The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months

Sebald Beham, after 1547

Engraving of two peasant couples: one wrestling playfully, the other walking, labeled September and October by Sebald Beham.

September and October from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1546-47

Engraving of two peasant couples dancing, one woman holding a basket, with labels Martinus Wintermon and Nicolaus Cristmon.

November and December from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1546-47

Engraving of peasants brawling with swords and sticks in an outdoor setting, with a scroll banner above.

Peasants' Brawl from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1547

Engraving of peasants by a wattle hedge with a pig, a man with an axe, and a couple embracing, with German banderole inscript

Peasants Behind the Hedge from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1546-47

Engraving of a dancing man and woman in an apron beside two pipe-playing musicians under a tree, with a table of drinks.

The Year's End from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

Sebald Beham, 1546

Engraving of peasants feasting at a table under a grapevine trellis, with a standing couple at left and a banner above.

Peasants' Feast from The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months

Sebald Beham, 1546-47

Caricature of a grocer wrapping cheese in newspaper while a top-hatted man reads the paper in a shop interior.

Newspapers at the Grocers (Les journaux chez l'épicier) from La Caricature, October 23, 1842

Honoré Daumier, 1842

Engraving of the centaur Chiron in a cave with Thetis, while armored youths and a lion skin stand at right.

Thetis and Chiron

Georg Pencz, 1543